Monthly Archives: March 2008

Mozilla World

Last week, a group of Stanford students delivered their senior project and presentation, titled “Mozilla World” (previously introduced here).  In short, their project is part of a broader effort at Mozilla to better understand the international dynamic of Firefox usage and the user experience.  We hope to eventually share some of the details of their [...]

Spectator, two days later

Since we put Spectator on AMO two days ago we have already recorded 41,537 UI interactions and 361,438 page loads (no URLs!) from 153 users.
Community is also starting to build around this tool. First, a Mr. Kurt filed a bug requesting Spectator be bundled with all Firefox builds. Next, the friendly Andy Edmonds created a [...]

Introducing Spectator

Spectator is finally live on AMO. Spectator is a Firefox extension that collects data about how Firefox is used. This information is used to better understand what people value in the browser.
We’ve taken a lot of time to strike a balance between helpful data and privacy. If you would like to contribute to usability at [...]